The Scoreboard was scheduled to come out Friday afternoon, but after hours of deliberation, legislative leaders decided to push it off ’til Saturday.
Here are this weeks winners and losers in Vermont news and politics:
Winners:
Gov. Peter Shumlin — After saying “no new taxes” for weeks, the wily gov managed to strike an agreement with legislative leadership Tuesday involving, um, no new taxes. Heck, he’s even managed to convince most people he didn’t try to raise $32 million in new taxes earlier this year!
Sen. Claire Ayer — The Addison County Democrat seemed on the verge of defeat Tuesday night when she was unable to draw a 16th vote to support her version of “End of Death with Digni-cide Choices” legislation. But the next day, she pulled not one but two rabbits out of her hat and pushed through a compromise on a 17-13 vote. Runner-up winners: Patient Choices Vermont lobbyists Adam Necrason, Amy Shollenberger, Jessica Oski and the rest of their team.
Migrant farmworkers — Who will soon have the right to drive. Runner-up loser: Rep. Duncan Kilmartin, who seems to think that’ll help the drug cartels and terrorists.
Rutland — No joke: Rutland hit the big time this week… in The Onion. Runner-up winner: The Rutland Reader‘s Jim Sabataso for exhaustively chronicling Rutland’s previous claims to fame. Most of which, it seems, also involved fleeting references in The Onion.
Losers after the break…
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